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A witness who had picked a Miami football player’s alleged murderer out of a lineup multiple times was presumed dead.

However, last month, reporters from ESPN found Paul Conner, 81, alive at his home in Louisville.

Conner lived at the same apartment complex as Bryan Pata, a Miami football standout who was killed on Nov. 7, 2006. He testified that he saw a man “jogging” after he heard a loud “pop” in the complex.

That man was Rashaun Jones, who has been in custody for four years awaiting trial for Pata’s murder.

Prosecutors told a Florida judge as recently as July that Conner was dead, relying on that belief from a public database that “seemed to indicate” Conner was not alive.

“Is there an impact of that on the case? I would have to say yes

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